Word: taranto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went ashore with the Commandos at Taranto, and I would hate to tell you how long I lasted lugging equipment weighing 75 lb., 40 on my back and 35 in my hand. The 40 on the back wasn't so bad, but the 35 in the hand was something else. I think we can all remember when we have to run for a train with a bag weighing something like that. Well, running with a tough bunch of Commandos or Rangers makes running for a train seem like a cakewalk. When the troops go past...
...troops landed at Salerno, the troops of the Eighth Army had been in Italy for six days. They held about 750 sq. mi, of Italy's Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open to as many more men as the Allied commands cared...
...area of Naples. To the south, in the Calabrian peninsula, where the British Eighth army had begun the landings, the Germans' chief effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
Through the twilit Ligurian Sea, into that sea which Italians lately called Mare Nostrum, the Roma sailed with the companion battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, six cruisers and several destroyers. From Taranto, the Italian base in the south, the older, smaller battleships Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria, two cruisers and a destroyer were sailing through the same darkness to the same destination: Malta...
Cameras for Guns. The Warspite had fought the Italians at Matapan; she had put a broadside into the Italia (then the Littorio) at Taranto. She had been bombed off Crete. Of late she had seen nothing of the Italian Navy. Now, as the Italians approached, the Warspite's crew manned the guns. But they were not in combat dress. Many of them aimed cameras...